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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Charleston Mayor Joe Riley blames Sofa Super Store owner Herb Goldstein for the deaths of nine firefighters and insists that the city and its Fire Department did everything possible to prevent the tragedy on June 18. Riley said in an interview Friday that illegally built additions compromised the massive building's fire protection and allowed a small outdoor trash fire to quickly race inside a showroom stuffed with flammable furniture.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
The former state treasurer, who is scheduled to check into prison by May 29 after pleading guilty to a federal cocaine charge, says that he wasn’t an addict and that he hopes to run for public office again.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Low-achieving Burke High School is struggling to attract the county's brightest students for its new, rigorous program. The downtown school will open an Advanced Placement Academy this fall, and fewer students have applied for the program than officials hoped.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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MOUNT PLEASANT — Australian Scott Mackey had hit his mark, and it was a good thing. After twisting and turning skyward on his wakeboard, he landed in a pool measuring a mere 50 feet long by 25 feet wide. "Obviously, there's an element of danger to it. They're getting bigger and scarier and crazier each year," he said.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Many students take a the expressway through higher education, finishing degrees in the shortest amount of time possible. But others, such as Timi Davie, 38, who graduated from the Medical University South Carolina on Friday with a doctorate in pharmacy, take the scenic route and find a rich and fulfilling life in the detours.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Bikers know Myrtle Beach Bike Week by the crowds and roaring street machines. Trauma surgeons at Medical University of South Carolina know Bike Week by the wounds.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Charleston police arrested Samuel Phillip Smiley, 17, of East Bay Street on Friday on charges of murder and armed robbery in the recent slaying of Jesse Meyers.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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The northern tip of Morris Island would become public land at less cost to taxpayers under an agreement reached with Ginn Resorts that also could help preserve Long Island, a 2.5-mile network of marsh islands near Folly Beach. The pending deals also would give the city of Charleston the power to decide what, if any, docks, trails or facilities should be built there.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Most Charleston City Council members feel they have been kept on the sidelines and poorly informed during the city's Sofa Super Store fire review and efforts to improve the Fire Department. Many of those concerns came to a head during the past two weeks when some council members first learned of key events from constituents or news sources rather than City Hall.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Students, parents and friends watched as a steel cross and stone marker were unveiled at a private memorial service Friday to honor seven college students killed in a beach house fire last fall.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
COLUMBIA — South Carolina might join six other states that let motorcyclists, mo-ped drivers and bicyclists go through red lights that don't change within a couple minutes of their stopping. The House and Senate sent a bill to Gov. Mark Sanford on Thursday that allows that even thoug...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
COLUMBIA — South Carolina might join six other states that let motorcyclists, mo-ped drivers and bicyclists go through red lights that don't change within a couple minutes of their stopping.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Gov. Mark Sanford has appointed Suzanne Piper to a three-year term as chair of the South Carolina Commission of National and Community Service, which promotes volunteerism across the state.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
ORANGEBURG — The former Orangeburg County councilman who served a year in prison for bribery and extortion has been hired to work with U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
GREENVILLE — Two 13-year-old girls spent four nights behind bars for yelling and cursing at each other in the hallways of their middle school.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
GOOSE CREEK — A man was shot in the hand Wednesday when he opened the door to a stranger's knock at his home in the Bushy Park Terrace neighborhood, according to a police report released Thursday.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
SANDRIDGE — A teenager was killed Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident on 35 Mile Road.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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A man has been charged with severely abusing two young children, according to the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office. Eddie Francisco Torres, 20, was arrested Tuesday on charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and inflicting bodily injury to a child, a release says. He remained at the Dorchester County jail Thursday on $1 million bail.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China — Tang Xiaomin had just left her fourth-floor apartment to buy groceries when the building started crumbling around her. An upstairs neighbor was thrown against the kitchen table and grabbed her purse before rushing out. Another resident, who was expecting a baby, was resting and became trapped.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
GOOSE CREEK — Berkeley County school officials gathered Thursday to kick off construction of an elementary school and check the progress of a new high school. Both schools are in Cane Bay Plantation, a new development on U.S. Highway 176. Cane Bay Elementary School is schedule...
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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MONCKS CORNER — All three candidates running for the District 3 Berkeley County Council seat say the county needs to better manage growth and its finances. David Kennedy, Robert Call and Billy Elrod are running in the June 10 Republican primary.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and retiring Fire Chief Rusty Thomas shared the report's findings with firefighters during a two-hour meeting Thursday at the Gaillard Auditorium. Afterward, many firemen walked away with solemn faces. Here's what a few had to say:
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Friday, May 16, 2008
If building code regulations had been followed at the Sofa Super Store building, nine firefighters would not have died there last summer, a city-funded analysis of the fire has concluded. "The fire could have been prevented," the report says. "If the property had been constructed and maintained in accordance with state and local codes, the fire would have been quickly controlled. No lives would have been lost, and the fire would have been of little consequence."
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Republican 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson aired her first TV ad Thursday after Blair Jennings, her rival in the June 10 GOP primary, hit the airwaves last week. Wilson's 30-second spot highlights her 15 years as a federal and state prosecutor, and her appointment by Gov. Mark Sanford as solicitor for Charleston and Berkeley counties.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Sometime before 7 p.m. on June 18, 2007, someone discarded "smoking materials" outside the Sofa Super Store's loading dock, the city's fire experts found. But 11 months after the deadly fire, investigators still haven't said whether they have answers to basic questions about the fire's origin: Did a cigarette start the fire, or some other "smoking material?" And who caused that first spark?
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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A Charleston Fire Department overconfident in its ability to aggressively extinguish fires and totally lacking in modern tactics and equipment. A sprawling furniture store in violation of fire and building codes. The combination proved a deadly mix at the Sofa Super Store fire, according to a report from a city-appointed panel of firefighting experts.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
South Carolina is a step closer to eliminating the standardized Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test given to public school students and revamping its entire education accountability system.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
The nearly 300-page report on the Sofa Super Store fire released Thursday is a culmination of hundreds of hours of work and the examination of hundreds of documents that began in August, two months after the fatal June 18 blaze that killed nine Charleston firefighters. The six-member, city...
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
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At the intersection of news you can use and news you can't use lies GMLc's weekly summary from various sources.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Local churches will band together Saturday to distribute more than 130 tons of food to needy families across South Carolina. The effort, coordinated by Angel Food Ministries, is in response to rapidly rising food costs.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Marvin Dulaney is leaving the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, where he's held leadership positions for the past 14 years. Dulaney, who's currently Avery's executive director, will step down from the center's top post on June 30 and leave in mid-August. Georgette Mayo, the center's reference archivist, will take over as executive director on July 1.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
It could cost North Charleston nearly $2 million to demolish a partially collapsed pier on the old Navy base.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Relatives of the fallen nine firefighters shared with Post and Courier reporters their impressions of the report:
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